The Opening Tip• In a rematch of one of the best games of the 2013-14 college basketball season, No. 5 Duke hosts No. 1 Syracuse Saturday for a top-five showdown in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The game tips off at 7 p.m. and will air on ESPN and the Blue Devil IMG Sports Network.• Duke is ranked No. 5 in the AP Poll and No. 6 in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll. The Blue Devils are 75-25 all-time when ranked No. 5 in the AP Poll.• The Blue Devils will face the No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll for the first time since March 8, 2008 against North Carolina. Duke is 8-21 all-time against the No. 1 team.• Duke’s home-court winning streak sits at 30 consecutive victories, tied for the longest active streak in the nation. Duke is 14-0 at home this season after going 16-0 on Coach K Court in 2012-13.• Saturday’s game features the two winningest head coaches in NCAA Division I history.

The Last Time Out• North Carolina outscored Duke 44-29 in the second half to recover from an 11-point deficit and defeat Duke, 74-66, Thursday evening in the Dean E. Smith Center. • Tar Heel point guard Marcus Paige scored all 13 of his points in the second half, including nine in the final 10 minutes. Leslie McDonald poured in a game-high 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting to lead the North Carolina offense.• Duke missed 13 consecutive field goals in the second half and hit just 5-of-23 field goals over the final 13:37 of the game. North Carolina outscored Duke 31-14 during that drought.• Quinn Cook and Jabari Parker scored 17 points apiece, and Rodney Hood added 16 for Duke. Cook hit 3-of-7 three-pointers, while Parker logged his ACC-leading 10th double-double with 11 rebounds. • The loss was only Duke’s second in its past six ACC road games.

By The Numbers• Duke has held 10 straight home opponents to less than 70 points. Opposing teams average just 65.9 points per game on the Blue Devils’ home court, good for a +19.2 Duke scoring margin. • Duke owns an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.56:1, which would rank as the highest ratio since Duke began tracking turnovers in the 1970-71 season. The Blue Devils logged a school-record 1.51:1 assist-to-turnover ratio last season, bettering the previous school record of 1.32 set in 2000-01.• Duke has lost back-to-back games just once since the start of the 2009-10 season and is 24-1 following a loss during that span.• Jabari Parker has a double-double in six of his past nine games and is averaging 19.2 points and 11.8 rebounds per game during that stretch. Parker owns an ACC-leading 10 double-doubles this season.• Rodney Hood is averaging 17.6 points per game in Cameron Indoor Stadium while shooting 51.7 percent from the field and 42.9 from three-point range. Six of Hood’s nine 20-point games have come at home, including his lone 30-point outing.• Andre Dawkins needs just 13 more points to become the 63rd Duke player to join the 1,000-point club.• Duke has faced the nation’s No. 1 team 16 times under head coach Mike Krzyzewski and is 5-11 in those games. Duke is 4-4 against the nation’s top-ranked team since a March 26, 1988 win against Temple.• Duke has previously faced a No. 1 Syracuse team once, falling 78-76 to the Orange on Dec. 6, 1989.• Duke is 8-21 all-time against the AP’s No. 1 team.